Re5: Help please!!!! - Never mind!

["Glenn A. Bookout" <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy:

On 01/21/2001 08:39 USA PT (-0800), webmaster@xxxxxxx ( Stephan Wik ), 
wrote...

>>/Local/Library/WebServer/tenon/libexec/iTools.sh
>>
>>contains all of the configuration of iTools IP addresses.  If you 
>>added a virtual host in iTools with the 1.1.1.2 IP address then 
>>deleted it manually in the httpd.conf, this can happen.
>>
>>delete the ifconfig and route lines toward the bottom of the file and reboot.
   Interesting, but is sounds like a user error caused the problem.

>This, unfortunately, is the  (only) reason we are dropping iTools and 
>moving to RedHat with Webmin. We had two occasions when, due to dns 
>lag in updating a domain, we had loss of service when our iTools box 
>appropriated the IP address of our main server. No warning - no hint 
>of what had happened.
>
>IMHO it's just not OK to update ifconfig without some pretty clear 
>warnings to the user as to what is about to happen. Automatically 
>going out to DNS, resolving a CNAME and updating ifconfig is, I 
>suppose, user-friendly but in our case it was a disaster.
   Has Tenon indicated a fix for this?

Glenn

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